georgiegirl
Well-Known Member
Just looking for others past experiences or advice really!
You may remember a couple weeks ago I posted saying autumn had clonked herself pretty hard in the field. Never at any point has she been lame but you know when you just get a nagging feeling that somethings up........? The leg was stone cold, she was sound but had the very TINIEST of thickening up behing her knee and on the inside (so small in fact if you didnt know it was there you wouldnt find it)
Anyway as we had a few BE's lined up (and the fact I'm ultra paranoid about legs) I decided 'sod it' and took her to the vets for a scan just to find out wether we were ok to carry on or if something more was going on.....
So, vet said she was 100% sound and the scan showed all tendons and ligaments are perfect. However she did have some fluid/swelling of the tendon sheath sustained from the blow. Thankgod we took her and didnt carry on as we could have ended up with a serious tendon injury. Vet has us on walking only for 4 weeks and then back for a rescan where he is very very confident we shall be able to carry on as normal after that. Means withdrawing a couple of events but all the secretarys have been lovely and we have recieved refunds which is a bonus! Again vet is super confident she'll be fine and says it wont have any long term impact on her.
So management at the moment is turned out at night (with george who is quiet) brought in during the day. Compagel put on the area and a friend has very kindly leant us her bioflow rug too (we figured it wont do any harm). Walk ridden work in the afternoon for about an hour then cold hosing/cool gel afterwards then turn out quietly with george once the rest of the yard is in.
Does this sound reasonable? Is there anything else we could be doing? Have you had this experience and had it managed differently? Do you think we should be doing more with the cooling therapy? The swelling is still there for now and is ever so slightly warmer than the other leg - hard to tell though!
I have been and invested in a set of polypads polar rappas for her today. We have a freezer down the yard so they could be used twice a day and quite liked them as theres no risk of ice burns or anything like that. They'll come in handy for when we start eventing again too so thought what the hell and bought them - whoops!
You may remember a couple weeks ago I posted saying autumn had clonked herself pretty hard in the field. Never at any point has she been lame but you know when you just get a nagging feeling that somethings up........? The leg was stone cold, she was sound but had the very TINIEST of thickening up behing her knee and on the inside (so small in fact if you didnt know it was there you wouldnt find it)
Anyway as we had a few BE's lined up (and the fact I'm ultra paranoid about legs) I decided 'sod it' and took her to the vets for a scan just to find out wether we were ok to carry on or if something more was going on.....
So, vet said she was 100% sound and the scan showed all tendons and ligaments are perfect. However she did have some fluid/swelling of the tendon sheath sustained from the blow. Thankgod we took her and didnt carry on as we could have ended up with a serious tendon injury. Vet has us on walking only for 4 weeks and then back for a rescan where he is very very confident we shall be able to carry on as normal after that. Means withdrawing a couple of events but all the secretarys have been lovely and we have recieved refunds which is a bonus! Again vet is super confident she'll be fine and says it wont have any long term impact on her.
So management at the moment is turned out at night (with george who is quiet) brought in during the day. Compagel put on the area and a friend has very kindly leant us her bioflow rug too (we figured it wont do any harm). Walk ridden work in the afternoon for about an hour then cold hosing/cool gel afterwards then turn out quietly with george once the rest of the yard is in.
Does this sound reasonable? Is there anything else we could be doing? Have you had this experience and had it managed differently? Do you think we should be doing more with the cooling therapy? The swelling is still there for now and is ever so slightly warmer than the other leg - hard to tell though!
I have been and invested in a set of polypads polar rappas for her today. We have a freezer down the yard so they could be used twice a day and quite liked them as theres no risk of ice burns or anything like that. They'll come in handy for when we start eventing again too so thought what the hell and bought them - whoops!
